Principal Software Engineer - Python

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. The Principal Software Engineer will be a founding team member building an AI-driven platform for safety, regulatory, and clinical development, owning features end to end, driving technical solutions, establishing engineering best practices, reviewing code, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Full Feature Ownership: Own all stages of feature implementation, from design and development through deployment, production support, and maintenance. Daily code contribution using AI assistance for productivity
• Drive Solutions: Collaborate with Product Management and Development on technical design and problem-solving to deliver great code
• Rapid Problem Solving: Quickly analyze complex problems, identifying knowns and unknowns, to accelerate the path to robust solutions
• Develop Best Practices: Define, promote, and mentor on engineering best practices and coding standards, including the latest approaches to AI assisted engineering
• Expert Code Review: Provide comprehensive code reviews for engineers of all experience levels
• Strategic Mentorship: Develop the skills of engineering talent through structured mentorship

Requirements:

• 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required)
• Extensive experience developing high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud applications
• Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale
• Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic
• Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence
• Veeva is a hard-working company
• Veeva is a PBC and a do the right thing company. We expect that from all employees
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time